Fun with EXAscan – Water Pump

Doing body panels and composite parts with the EXAscan is dead easy, but getting very nice clean scans of mechanical parts takes a bit more practice. I feel like we’re finally getting confident with scanning these trickier parts. Aaron Burhoe of Burhoe Machine Works wanted a water pump housing and impeller scanned, and we were more than happy to oblige. Here’s the parts:

Here’s the scan of the impeller:

And the housing:

And the two of them in assembly:

I’ll be rebuilding the impeller surface in T-Splines/Rhino this week. Should be fun!